Agape Christian Museum Centre

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION AGAPE CHRISTIANMUSEUM CENTRE: CHURACHANDPUR

1. Name of the Association: AGAPE CHRISTIAN MUSEUM CENTRE

2. Office of the Association shall be situated at:

CHURACHANDPUR as Register Head Office
Agape Christian Museum Centre,
Post Box - 110,
Opposite Tuibuong Petrol Pump,
P.O. Churachandpur - 795128,
Manipur, India.

3. Date of Govt. Registration: June 14, 1995

4. Area of Operation: Agape Christian Museum Centre shall operate in Churachandpur District shall establish its Branch Centres all over the District throughout the State in India and even abroad (Foreign Countries) with the availability of funding resources. As its vision is concentrated on the lost souls of humanity & for transformation and development of the society in a large scale. The Agape Christian Museum Centre has no Geographical limitation irrespective of Caste, Religion or Creed, Colour, Sex and Nationality.

5. The main objectives for which the Association is established are:

(i) To construct the permanent registered Head Office building, Museum Centre Hall, 24 Prayer Tower (ACMC Power House) and Cabins, Chapel Hall, Counseling and Guest House to serve humanity with the purpose of wining lost souls and social transformation of the society

(ii) To -

(a) organize and conduct Seminars, Workshops, Camps, Crusades, Conferences.

(b) organize and conduct Awareness camps & prevention on HIV/ AIDS and Drug Addicts, etc.

(c) establish and run HIV/AIDS and Drug De- Addiction Hospitals.

(iii) To establish and run Old Age Care Centre for unwanted old men, widows- home for widows, orphanage home for orphans, destitute homes, lepers colony, nursing homes, rehabilitation centres for mentally, physically impaired and disable people, drugs abuses, alcohol(wine) addicts and HIV / AIDS patients.

(iv) To -

(a) establish and run educational institutions such as short courses training centres, schools, colleges, universities, Hospitals, Clinics, etc. for the upliftment of rural as well as Urban(Slum Area) who are poor and under privileged.

(b) establish and run Bible schools, Theological colleges and Leadership training centres to trains Pastors and Lay Leaders.

(c) establishment and running of institutions for vocational education and training in rural areas.

(d) establish and construct hostel accommodation for women or handicapped individuals or individuals who are of the age of 70 (seventy) years or more.

(v) To -

(a) do child and women welfare development in rural poor and remote places.

(b) act for the welfare of the children, backward classes and disable persons, orphans and destitutes irrespective of the caste in creed.

(c) create better infrastructure centres for the development of specially towards child and women in the community by organizing tailoring centres, sewing schools, classes, weaving centres, crиches, production of various crafts, etc.

(d) establish and run Counseling and Career Guidance Centre for Adolescents.

(vi) To-

(a) take up relief works on all sorts of natural calamities such as flood, drought, fire, ethnic clash and riots victims, wars, famines, earthquakes, etc.

(b) construction of dwelling units for the economically weaker sections.

(c) run Refugee Camp and low housing construction for war and ethnic clash victims.

(d) run Mobile Hospitals, Blood Bank and Ambulance services.

(e) establish a cell specially to engage in socially productive useful and creative activities in the areas of health and sanitation in the rural communities.

(f) prevent, control and treatment of Tuberculosis and Malaria in rural areas.

(vii) To eliminate poverty through the introduction of new techniques and skills, methodologies in rural agricultural and animal husbandry development projects such as horticulture, sericulture, terrace wet paddy field, cashcrop, coffee, rubber, jetropha, tea, ginger, sugarcane, potato, mango, orange, banana plantation, etc. Animal Husbandry includes such as chicken farming, cattle rearing, piggery, goatry, fishery, duckery, etc.

(viii) To -

(a) Publish Christian Holy Books, Magazines, Hymn Books, Booklets, Tracts, Newspapers, Pamphlets, etc.

(b) Print & Publish ACMC materials, photos, Genesis to Revelation, etc. for ACMC branch centres.

(c) Collect & snap photos from Holy Lands (Israel, Egypt, Lourdes, Fatima, Antioch, Mt. Nebo, Thessalonica, Tarsus, Damascus, Patmos Island, Corinth, Cities, Rome, Arrarat, etc). for educating the ignorant, illiterates, literates, all communities through visual illustrations and proven records about the life history of Jesus Christ, His disciples, His miracles throughout His reign on the earth.

(d) establish and run Research centre and ACMC Library.

(e) open Museum branch centres all over the district in India states, Asia, Africa and uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). To spread the knowledge of the saving Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. So that whoever believes Jesus will go to heaven and escape the burning hell forever.

(f) run and established International Prayer Mountain and Prayer Tower.

(ix) To -

(a) do church planting ministry to the unreached areas.

(b) take up the work of construction and repair of churches.

(c) construct ringwell, pitwell, village roads, culverts, bridges, latrines, small dams, sheds, etc in rural areas for better development among the poor and down-trodden community.

(d) to run and construct schools and community halls for the poor villagers(weaker sections) in the hill areas where there is no schools till date.

(e) construct go down, cold storage, packing centre, ripening curing chamber, auction platform, hotels and tourist lodge.

(f) construction and maintenance of drinking water projects in rural areas and in urban slums including installation of pump-sets, digging of wells, tube-wells and laying of pipes for supply of drinking water.

(x) To -

(a) organize Gospel Concert, Prayer Meetings, Peace & Harmony campaign to protect all social evils among different communities for peaceful co-existence .

(b) join hands with other organization such as NGOs, Peace Making Committee to create stability in the society for better development and progress.

(c) establish and run Human Rights protection and activities.

(d) maintain discipline and politeness among the members and general public so as to promote friendship, brotherhood, peace and communal harmony among different communities.

(xi) To -

(a) run Eco-Club for Environmental Awareness of the citizens so as to keep Villages, Towns, Cities green and clean, protection of Bio-Diversity of the Society, planting of seedlings and plants and to help in the social forestry plans and objectives of the forest department.

(b) run a Disaster Management Team which will be prepared to manage different kinds of disaster of the society side by side.

(xii) To visit prisoners, patients at Hospitals, helpless widows, peddlers, prostitutes, orphans, lepers, affected HIV/AIDS patients, drug addicts, affected people of ethnic clashes, sex workers, astray young people, etc to provide their essential needs, extend helping hands and share the love of Jesus Christ.

(xiii) To organize Bible quiz, song competition, etc once in a year for better understanding of the Bible. They will be highly awarded to the position holders for better knowledge of the Bible.

(xiv) To -

(a) support evangelists and missionaries to spread the gospel to the unreached people and win their souls at any cost.

(b) help finance assistance to the children of pastors, evangelists and missionary in their children studies in rural poor area of Manipur.

(c) give special help to tribal poor pastors, evangelists, missionaries in their problems: health, food and house construction in rural poor areas of Manipur.

(xv) To -

(a) organize and promote Art and Culture of different communities for peace and harmony.

(b) organize cultural activities and construct cultural hall by preserving cultural heritage.

(c) promote and organize games & sports, martial arts, physical and mental development of the young people to enable them from astray in their impressionable periods of their lives.

(xvi) To promote handloom, handicrafts and Khadi & Village based industries.

(xvii) To undertake pilot projects relating to computers and internets, science and technology and environment (biogas plan, smokeless, chullahs and others).

(xviii) To run, open and implement carpentry, craft centre, automobile (heavy and light vehicle), oil pump, brick field, photograph training, spray painting and dieting, welding and fitting training, T.V. Radio, Refrigerator, Washing Machine, Fax Machine, Repair Training, Black Smith and Gold Smith.

(xix) To run and establish Self Help Groups.

(xx) To -

(a) run Adult and Child Education

(b) run Rural Industrialization & Micro-Enterprises

(c) run Training & Development (HRD)

(d) run Youth Affairs

(e) run Population and Reproductive health

(f) collect and sale Production of Audios, Gospel Films, etc.

(g) run Community Development & Poverty alleviation

(xxi) To -

(a) give scholarship to talented students who could not continue their further studies both in secular and theology due to poverty in rural areas of Manipur.

(b) give food and feed poor children, women and poor people in their hunger.

(c) give clothing to selected poor children and women in Christmas time every year in Manipur.

(d) distribute mosquito nets to the poorest of the poor for prevention of malaria in rural poor areas.

(xxii) To -

(a) open and run LOVE LINE CRISIS CENTER (TELEPHONE COUNSELLING) ministry in the North Eastern States of India.

(b) open and run Gospel for Muslims International

(xxiii) To raise funds in all directions by receiving donations through patron members, monthly contributions from supporters, one time freewill gifts and offerings, and financial assistance in the form of grants from NGOs, States and Central Governments, Foreign aids, etc.

6. The Managing of the affairs of the society is entrusted to a Managing Committee in accordance with the Rules and Regulations and the following are the Managing Committee Members of the Society:

No.	Name	Address	Occupation	Designation
01.	Rev. Dr. Lhunkhohao Haokip	Hengkapkot	Pastor	President
02.	Smt. Ruth Vungdeikim Haokip	Hengkapkot	Women Activist	Secretary
03.	Smt. Lhingneo	Tuibuong	Social Worker	Treasurer
04.	Smt. Heting	Tuibuong	Social Worker	Member
05.	Mr. M. Lunminthang Haokip	Tuibuong	Social Worker	Member
06.	Mr. Jangkhogin Zou	Tuibuong	Field Officer, Agriculture	Member
07.	Mrs. Veilam	Hengkapkot	Weaving Instructor	Member